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BaseCamp + Slack has been a general win for us. We use BaseCamp for anything that should have any temporal meaning beyond the present, and Slack for water-cool
by dleslie 8y ago
BaseCamp + Slack has been a general win for us.
We use BaseCamp for anything that should have any temporal meaning beyond the present, and Slack for water-cooler conversation, coordinating tests, coordinating releases, hot-topic issues, and similar. Basically, anything that is best served with a post-mortem or no record at all goes in Slack.
Slack can be totally ignored and one can remain a positively contributing member of the team; but it exists because we're social mammals and we _don't have an office_. Slack _shouldn't_ be ignored because it is a place of coordination and rapid response, but it _can_ be if one wants to focus on a particular task.
That said, Slack's VoIP for meetings sucks when you have more than a half-dozen people.
- rprime 8y agoI've been looking to ditch Slack in favor of Basecamp, isn't Campfire enough to replace Slack?
- dleslie 8y agoWe tried campfire and found that mapping chat to projects didn't make sense when what we really wanted was an office banter space. It was even harder to track meaningful conversations! Also, not enough fun integrations for our team. We have all sorts of custom bots, emoji, and such. ;)
- seppin 8y agoSlack + Trello for the money minded, works great.